Healthy food?

Michael_Woods
Wed, 22 Aug 2007 03:59:55 +0000

Another thing to keep in mind when discussing Caltech food is that we’ve recently gotten a new director of dining services, Peter Daily.

To say that Peter is fantastic would be an understatement. Peter is responsible for the biggest improvement in the overall quality of the board program at Caltech that I’ve ever heard of. In fact, this past summer, the north house kitchens were remodeled to provide better service and options to the undergrads (the south house kitchens being new). Peter is also responsible for the newly instituted ‘breakfast at midnight’ events, where top school administrators serve pancakes, waffles, omelets, and more at midnight during finals week (the new president, Jean-Lou Chameau made me an omelet last term), and goes well out of his way to accommodate the requests of individual students, tracking down old dessert recipes, or, in my case, finding a specialty mustard, imported only from eastern Europe.

To top it all off, we’ve got a student food committee, with representatives from each house, that meets with Peter Daily on a regular basis, to discuss opinions and thoughts of the undergraduates.

Yes, the food at Caltech could be a lot better. That said, it was definitely a lot worse just a few years ago, it’s been getting better, and there’s only better yet in store.